Amid tension with U.S., Iran plans satellite launch and unveils new missile - Reuters
State television said Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is in charge of the missile program, had also unveiled a new short-range missile.
The announcements come at a time of high tension with the United States, which killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad on Jan. 3, prompting Iran to carry out a missile attack on a U.S. military base in Iraq.
Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi was quoted by state television as saying the Zafar (Victory) satellite would be launched from Iran's Semnan space center.
